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2 Chronicles 11:3

in 2 Chronicles 11

“Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

KJV

Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

This verse in 2 Chronicles 11

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin

on 2 Chronicles 11:1-4

Rehoboam musters Judah and Benjamin, “180,000 chosen warriors,” to force the ten tribes back, and the passage runs word for word with 1 Kings 12:21-24. Chronicles keeps Shemaiah's oracle, “You are not to go up and fight against your brothers,” and the king obeys a prophet over an army mustered.

This site's exposition

all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin

The word reaches the king and all his people. Barnes reads Judah and Benjamin as the common name for the southern kingdom. He points to verses 12 and 23, where the same pair names the kingdom.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

He saw it was to no purpose to think of reducing those that had revolted. A few good words might have prevented their defection, but now all the forces of his kingdom cannot bring them back. The think is done, and so it must rest; it is his wisdom to make the best of it.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אֱמֹ֕רsay

    ʾemorH559 →5305 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • רְחַבְעָ֥םRehoboam

    rechavamH7346 →50 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֖הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֑הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • וְאֶל֙and to

    veelH413 →5510 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • בִּיהוּדָ֥הin Judah

    bihudahH3063 →819 times

  • וּבִנְיָמִ֖ןand Benjamin

    uvinyaminH1144 →166 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Philippians 3:5

    circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 11:22

      Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

    • Romans 11:1

      I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

    • Acts 23:6

      Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in…

    • Genesis 17:12

      Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.

    • Acts 26:4–5

      Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from the earliest days of my youth, among my own people and in Jerusalem.

  • Through

    2 Kings 17:34

    To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 18:31

      And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said, “Israel shall be your name.”

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 32:28

      Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

    • Genesis 35:10

      And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.

Where this verse is studied

On this page

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.